Bushing for barrels.



No. 66!,519. Patented Nov. l3, i900.

J HART & .1 womu BUSHING FOR BARRELS.

' Application filed Aug. 18, 1900 2 Sheets-Sheet I.

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BUSHING FOR BARRELS.

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JOSEPH HART AND JACOB VORTl-I, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

BUSHING FOR BARRELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 661,519, dated November 13, 1900.

Application filed August 18,1900. Serial No. 27,328 (No model.)

To (tZZ 1071/0772, 1% may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH HART, a resident of New York, county of Queens, and JACOB IVORTH, a resident of New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bushings for Barrels; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

Heretofore cup-shaped bungs have been used for closing beer-barrels. It is necessary to soak these a suitable limited time to insure a close fit in the barrel. This is done by the brewer. In tapping the barrel a suitable tap, faucet, or hollow plug adapted to make connection with a conducting-pipe is driveninto the cup by the retailer with the effect to force its bottom into the barrel and permit the tight sealing of the faucet in the wooden annulus left after the cup-bottom is broken out. It is a defect of such cups that they are liable in the operation described to be split and thereby unfitted formaking a close joint, and even when they are not thus ruptured they sometimes fail to make a close joint. In such cases other like cup bungs could be supplied were it not for the necessity of suitably soaking them before use, which requires so much time that the contents of the barrel would spoil.

The invention relates to a substitute for the wooden annulus above mentioned and is designed primarily to be used only in case the wooden annulus fails, though it is capable of general use.

The object of the invention is to avoid the deterioration of beer incident to the use of the wooden cup hung, as above set forth.

The invention consists in the construction herein described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a partial perspective showing the improved devicein use on a barrel. Fig. 2 is a partial section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the improved device. Fig. 4 is a perspective showing the manner of using the device. Fig. 5 is a partial enlarged section of the same. Fig. 6 is a perspective of a wooden bung.

Numeral 1 denotes the head of the barrel,

and 2 a bushing made of any suitable material, such as rubber, and of a size to snugly fit when suitably compressed and forced in an opening 3 in the barrel-head. The body 1- of the bushing has a frusto-conical form, and it also has a frusto-conical opening 5, with its largest diameter on the outer end. This end is provided with a flange 6 By preference it has considerable thickness as compared with that of the tubular wall of the body. The particular form of the opening is adapted to receive the ordinary frustoconical end of a faucet. The compressibility of the flange adapts it to fit the barrel-head and adapts the body to fit both the barrelhead opening and the faucet. Since the barrel ordinarily stands on end, the bushing does not come in contact with the beer. In practice it may, if desired, be'shorter than the thickness of the head. The particular size and material of the bushing can be varied, provided it remains adapted for immediate application in a gas-tight manner to a barrel in form and situation substantially as set forth, and is adapted to at once receive a faucet, all without additional devices or manipulations. having a diaphragm 9, as indicated in Fig. 6, is used, and in tapping the barrel a faucettube holder 7, holding a tube 10, is driven into the bung, forcing out the diaphragm 9. The wooden bung is in use seated in a hollow metal plug or bushing 11, screwed into the barrel. (See Figs. 2 and 5.)

12 denotes an elastic packing for tube 10, and 13 a packing-compressor.

14 is a ja1n-nut.

15 is a cook or faucet.

1o denotes an air or gas admission plug whereby fiuid-pressure can be produced in the barrel to force its contents out through the tube 10.

In case the wooden bung is split or broken or proves leaky from any cause we immedi ately substitute the flanged elastic bushing 2. The drawings illustrate said bushing in place compressed between the tube-holder 7 and bushing 11. It is important that bushing 2 be elastic and that it be shaped both on the outside and on the inside to fit the contiguous parts, each of which decreases in diameter toward its lower end.

It is also important In practice a wooden bung 8,

that the said elastic bushing be instantly applicable to the barrel and that it have a sub stantial flange to aid in its insertion and to effectually close the joint between it and the iron bushing. For this purpose the flange Will have such form and proportions that when the elastic bushing is forced into the rigid bushing 11 the head of the former Will overlap the metal bushing, and preferably such that its periphery will bear on and fit the barrel outside the rigid bushing, substantially as indicated in the drawings.

Having thus described our invention, what We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rigid bushing to fit a barrel openiug and itself having a frusto-conical opening, and an elastic bushing adapted to be driven into the rigid bushing and make a tight joint therewith, said latter bushing having also a frustoconical opening with its larger diameters toward its outer end to receive a faucet and having a flanged head to fit the outersurface of the rigid bushing, all substantially as described, whereby in case of failure of the ordinary Wooden cup-shaped bung said elastic bushing may be immediately applied to preserve the contents of the barrel.

In testimony whereof We have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOSEPH HART. JACOB WORTH. Witnesses:

B. W. REIss, J osEPH E. AUSTRIAN. 

